The Google search engine is a major presence in the online world. It has become a household word and has changed the way people do research and conduct business. The American Dialect Society, a scholarly association dedicated to the study of the English language in North America, chose "google" as the "most useful" word of 2002. The Oxford American Dictionary included "google" as a verb in its latest edition. Google accounted for almost half of the 5.1 billion search engine inquiries performed in the United States in December 2005.
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